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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 44.4.4)
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[ 44.4 Euro Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents ]info
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44.4 Euro Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents

Johnson continued drawing portraits in charcoal after he arrived in Europe. However, the currently located portrait drawings of children were all executed in The Hague, and those portraits returned to the United States. —PH

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Hills no. 44.4.4
Baur no. 340
Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier
Alternate title: Stephen A. F. Peletier
c.1851–55
Charcoal and graphite heightened with white on gray-beige paper
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Inscribed lower center in graphite: Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier; lower right: 15

Verso, upper right in graphite: Eastman Johnson; $10
The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Spark, 1944. Given in memory of Pfc. Donald W. Spark, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, born August 17, 1923, Long Branch, N.J. Killed in action, June, 1944 Saipan, Marianas Islands, and dedicated to the Fourth Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force. (44.197)
Description / Remarks

Newark Museum of Art object report, November 26, 2018: "Head of a young man with rather long dark hair; small white collar on his grey shirt, fastened by an oval brooch."

Markings
Nonextant label: J. Eastman Johnson / S.A.F.P.
Provenance
Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, by September 21, 1938 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)
Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York
Bernard H. Cone, New York, March 12, 1940 (by purchase)
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Spark, New York, until 1944
The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, 1944 (by gift)
References
Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 75, no. 340, as Stephen A. F. Peletier.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): June 23, 1971; February 20, 2019
Examination notes: 2019: Delicate charcoal heightened with white chalk. Stump used to create highlights on hair. Translucent eyes. Seems to be a teenager.
LR. “15”. Lower center: Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier –
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Peletier, Stephen Andrew Florentine
Biography:

Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier (life dates unknown). 

Keywords
Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier, c.1851–55 (Hills no. 44.4.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1014 (accessed on May 2, 2024).